Impinj Gen2X: Boost RAIN performance and protection, and lower solution cost
Gen2X provides a RAIN RFID solutions toolbox that strengthens existing solutions and enables new enterprise and consumer use cases.
What is Gen2X?
Gen2X is an enhancement to the radio and logical layers of the RAIN radio standard that speeds inventory counts, increases tag read range, declutters the environment, protects consumers, inhibits tag and item counterfeiting, and reduces solution cost. Encompassing key innovations Impinj developed over two decades working with Fortune 500 enterprises, Gen2X provides a solutions toolbox that solves previously unsolvable use cases, reduces solution cost, or both.
Gen2X operates seamlessly with the RAIN radio standard (GS1 UHF Gen2 and ISO/IEC 180000-63) and is broadly available from the RAIN industry.
Why use Gen2X?
Gen2X provides a solutions toolbox that reduces solution cost and solves challenging use cases.
- Reduces inventory counting time, saving labor cost.
- Improves readability of small, embedded tags or tags on hard-to-read items, reducing tag cost and enabling new use cases like food tagging.
- Reduces stray reads in retail loss prevention, allowing consumer self-checkout.
- Declutters conveyor-to-truck shipment loading, reducing labor costs and misshipments.
- Boosts dock-door reading and directional accuracy, reducing misshipments and costly mistakes.
- Addresses consumer privacy at point-of-sale.
- Inhibits tag and item counterfeiting, fraudulent returns, or both.
Impinj Gen2X Protection
Key features that protect tag data, authenticate tag chips, and protect consumer privacy.
Impinj Protected Mode tag data protection
Makes a RAIN tag invisible to RAIN readers. When necessary, the tag can be returned to normal operation using a secure PIN.
Impinj FastID high-speed verification
Allows readers to instruct tags to concatenate their TID and EPC during inventory, speeding up EPC-to-TID verification.
Impinj Authenticity cryptographic authentication
Verifies a product’s authenticity using a challenge-response protocol, preventing counterfeits and securing the supply chain.
Impinj Integra memory diagnostics
Verifies tag chip health and validates data encoding, enabling more reliable tags and consistent delivery of accurate data.
Impinj Gen2X Performance
Innovative capabilities that increase solution performance while reducing solution cost.
Tag readability and range
Improves reader sensitivity and power delivery to tags, delivering exceptional readability, especially for small tags on densely packed items.
Inventory speed
Accelerates reader inventory speed by reducing tag backscatter data and tag communication errors.
Tag decluttering
Enables readers to declutter complex tag environments by discriminating which reader a tag’s response is intended for and silencing already inventoried tags.
Tag filtering
Allows readers to complete tag selection at inventory round initiation, ensuring only tags of interest participate.
